The future looks bright after the annual Crimson and Gold Spring Football Game, as both sides of the ball were suc­cess­fully showcased.

The Bulldogs hit Top Taggart Field on April 20 for the first time this year, as the Red and White Teams faced off in a scrim­mage style tune-up game. Even though the out­come was lop­sided, with the White Team shut­ting down the Red Team 50–14, both offense and defense showed improve­ment and poten­tial for the upcom­ing season.

“It was nice to get back into the swing of things,” Ferris junior defen­sive end Carlton Johnson said. “I felt that it was very pro­duc­tive over­all, and on defense, we did make a cou­ple of mis­takes, but still not bad over­all.” (more…)

Jordan Morgan
Defensive End
#14

Q: First off, how did you first get involved with foot­ball?
A: I remem­ber grow­ing up and play­ing catch in the back­yard with my dad and brother all the time, and then fifth grade came around and my school offered foot­ball, so my brother and I jumped at the chance.

Q: At what point did you know you wanted to play foot­ball pro­fes­sion­ally?
A: I think it’s a dream of any kid grow­ing up. It was a dream for a while, but it became a goal once I got a chance to play col­lege foot­ball. (more…)

Now that his final sea­son as a Bulldog is behind him, Ferris State’s Brad Iskow has turned his sights to the next level of his play­ing career.

With the NFL draft loom­ing and the period of rookie free agent sign­ings near­ing closer every day, Iskow has been train­ing for his own spot on a pro­fes­sional roster.

As a grad­u­at­ing senior in oper­a­tions and sup­ply man­age­ment and a tal­ented defen­sive end, Iskow has left his mark on the field in his career as a Bulldog. In his five years spent play­ing for Ferris (includ­ing a red­shirted fresh­man year), Iskow totaled for 164 career tack­les, 13 sacks, 45 tack­les for a loss and six forced fum­bles. (more…)

As the sea­son hits a mid­way point, Ferris State sits at sec­ond in its con­fer­ence after extend­ing its win­ning streak to six games.

The Bulldogs (13−7) cur­rently rank sec­ond in the GLIAC stand­ings fol­low­ing strong out­ings against both Lake Erie and Walsh.

“In my opin­ion, we are one of the bet­ter teams in the GLIAC,” senior catcher Liz Hamming said. “We have great pitch­ing, tal­ented defense and good hit­ting. Not many teams can say that.” (more…)

Ferris State alumna and Big Rapids based tat­too artist, Sonya Grenell, is mak­ing a name for her­self one tat at a time.

Often, when peo­ple think of tat­too par­lors, they imme­di­ately think of dirty estab­lish­ments, biker gangs and shady char­ac­ters; most of the time the real­ity is far from the per­cep­tion, as most are clean and well-organized businesses.

One tat­too stu­dio that fol­lows the lat­ter is Lighttouch Tattoo, located in down­town Big Rapids and ran by Bulldog alum Sonya Grenell. (more…)

Following a first round play­off exit, Ferris State flips its focus to get­ting bet­ter in the off-season.

With a 62–55 loss to Findlay in the first round of the GLIAC tour­na­ment in the rear-view mir­ror, play­ers have already set their sights on get­ting bet­ter for next season.

“I think it’s time to look for­ward as soon as pos­si­ble,” Ferris sopho­more guard Drew Lehman said. “I feel like we had a decent year, but we under-achieved. And with a young team, it’s time to start prepar­ing for next year.” (more…)

NHL ath­lete rep­re­sents Ferris with pride

Pittsburg Penguins’ left wing and Ferris alum Chris Kunitz sits in the top 10 of every major offen­sive sta­tis­ti­cal cat­e­gory in the NHL this season.

With the short­ened NHL sea­son at a mid­way point, Kunitz cur­rently leads the league with a plus/minus of pos­i­tive 23 and is sec­ond among all play­ers in points (39) and goals (18). (more…)

Ferris State women’s bas­ket­ball head coach Colleen Lamoreaux-Tate leads the Lady Bulldogs to the con­fer­ence tour­na­ment in her first year, and she has helped lead Ferris to its 14th GLIAC tour­na­ment berth with her pas­sion and emo­tion while at the helm.
 
The Bulldogs (13−12) appointed Lamoreaux-Tate to the posi­tion of head coach prior to the 2012–13 sea­son with hopes she could con­tinue win­ning ways, and she did just that. (more…)

Redmond out for sea­son fol­low­ing life threat­en­ing injury

Ferris alum­nus Zach Redmond, who played col­le­giate hockey at Ferris State, saw his NHL sea­son cut short fol­low­ing a severe injury sus­tained in practice.

On Feb. 20, Redmond was run­ning one-on-one drills dur­ing the Winnipeg Jets prac­tice when his femoral artery was cut after a team­mate acci­dently stepped on the back of his right thigh with his skate. (more…)

Ferris said good­bye to its seniors with a loss at home in the last game the Bulldogs will host this season.

A com­mem­o­ra­tive scene where ath­letes shared mem­o­ries was dis­played Feb. 23, while Ferris’ four grad­u­at­ing seniors– guard Kylie Muntz, cen­ter Felicia Standley, for­ward Caitlin Carmody and cen­ter Katy Fox–stood at mid-court with their fam­i­lies as the entire home crowd stood and cheered for them prior to tip-off against Saginaw Valley State University.

The Bulldogs (13−11) had an 80–61 loss at Wayne State prior to Senior Day. The Warriors snapped the Bulldogs’ three-game win­ning streak Feb. 21. (more…)